How did you guys get "The Last Express" to play in DosBox?

I installed it fine, but when I go to run it, it doesn't do anything. I know how to mount things in DosBox, but when I try to do that, it says that no cd-rom drive can be detected...but there are no CDs, since I bought it off GOG. Did I miss part of the installation, or...?

Can somebody help me, please? :)

Do you use desktop shortcut?

No, I tried to, but it didn't work. Did it work for you?

I ask, because with GOG Dosbox games you always should use shortcuts instead of running the game directly.

Anyway, do you get any error messages or just black screen? Tried different graphic modes?

Thank you for the answer. I'm going to reinstall it, and try and run it from the shortcut.

I just get the error message that no cd-rom drive is detected. I had delted the shortcut, however, so I'll try to use that instead. Thanks for the help! :)

Alternatively, if it still won't run, go to Last Express folder, open *.conf file with notepad and change fullscreen=true to false. It might help.

Just thought I'd post in case anyone else is having this problem and re-installing does not work for some reason:

You have to mount the folder the game is in as the C:\ drive (Mount C "whatever the path is") Then, mount the data folder which has all three CDs in it saved as .hpf files, as a cd-rom with DosBox's CD-rom emulator (Mount d "whatever the path is" -t cdrom"). Then you should be able to run express.exe from your mounted C:\ drive.

Obviously replace "whatever the path is" with whatever the path is.

Thanks for this thread, I managed to install and run the game under xubuntu.

I added the following at the end of my .conf file

mount C "~/Games/The Last Express"
MOUNT d "~/Games/The Last Express/data" -t cdrom

and to create a launcher I created a bash script with the following:


#!/bin/bash
cd "~/Games/The Last Express"
dosbox -conf "/home/flux/Games/The Last Express/linuxdbox.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

Runs really well :-) Thanks to GOG and everyone on this thread to help me get this going, I can now play The Last Express on my netbook.